Recap as Eagles extend losing streak to seven with 19-11 loss to Giants

Philadelphia Eagles Complete coverage of the Philadelphia Eagles and their NFL rivals from NBC Sports Philadelphia. Eagles blog Live Blog Ended Nov 8, 2026 Recap as Eagles extend losing streak to seven with 19-11 loss to Giants Here's a full recap of the Eagles' seventh straight loss. By Brooke Destra , Eva Cheeseman and Zach Carey • Published November 8, 2026 • Updated on November 8, 2026 at 7:28 pm What to Know Joe Milton wasn’t able to pull the Eagles out of their rut. They have lost seven straight, their longest losing streak since 2012. Milton was 18 for 34 for 169 yards and zero touchdowns in his Eagles debut. He was sacked seven times and fumbled once. The Eagles defense recorded a season-high six sacks against the Giants, including two from Zack Baun. In DeVonta Smith's absence , Makai Lemon caught six passes on nine targets for 61 yards. His 19 receptions in the last three games are the second most in a three-game stretch by an Eagles rookie. Next up: The Eagles have a bye in Week 10 and then host the Steelers on November 22. Roob's Observations as Eagles crumble in ugly second half against Giants Doesn’t seem to matter who’s playing quarterback. This offense stinks. This team stinks. Joe Milton made his first career start Sunday just 23 days after joining the Eagles and while he made a handful of big plays, not enough to lead this team to their first win in two months. And while the defense played lights out for much of the game, they also gave up three consecutive scores after halftime to a Giants offense that could barely get out of its own way. Giants 19, Eagles 11. Losing streak? Seven games. Record? 2-7. Season? Over. Here’s our 10 Instant Observations off another terrible, awful, ugly, pathetic, hapless Eagles loss. 1. Last time the Eagles won a game Lane Johnson was their right tackle, Jalen Hurts was their quarterback and DeVonta Smith was having a Pro Bowl season. Yeah, it’s been a while. The Eagles sputtered to their seventh straight loss, matching the 9th-longest in the franchise’s 94-year history. The only longer losing streak in the last 25 years was an eight-game slide in 2012, Andy Reid’s final season. One day the Eagles will win another football game. I do not know when that day might be. The 6-2 Steelers are up after the bye and then the Cowboys in Dallas. When they play OK on defense, they’re terrible on offense. When they’ve had decent stretches on offense, they fall to pieces on defense. And lately special teams has been a weekly disaster as well. They’re just a terrible football team that doesn’t do anything consistently well. I keep thinking Jalen Hurts’ situation will be enough to save Nick Sirianni’s job. Would Jeff Lurie really fire the head coach when the Super Bowl MVP quarterback misses most of the season? If they’re just not competitive? Week after week? I don’t know. Tough call. I’m not sure how much more of this Lurie will be able to watch. They’ve now lost four straight games by eight or more points for only the ninth time in franchise history and first time since – of course – 2012. We are officially in one of the worst stretches in Eagles history. And they’ve earned every bit of that. And still eight games of this to go. But that 1st-round draft pick keeps getting better. So there’s that. 2. Joe Milton was as expected. Made some good plays, made some bad plays, looked rusty and inexperienced, struggled behind a terrible offensive line but made enough big plays that you could see why the Eagles wanted to get him in there after three miserable weeks of Tanner McKee. Milton in his first NFL start was 18-for-34 for 169 yards with no TD passes and no interceptions. He had a couple big runs – a 19-yarder and a 24-yarder and finished 9-for-64. His receivers dropped four passes. He was sacked seven times for 41 yards and his pocket awareness was understandably shaky. Dude just got here. You’d expect him to get better as he continues learning the offense, getting used to his teammates and gaining experience. He better be because the Eagles are running out of quarterbacks. 3. It was nice to see the defensive line put together such a dominating first half, with five sacks, tons of big hits and big-time run defense, holding the Giants’ running game minus Cam Skattebo to 16 yards on 10 carries. Zack Baun, Jalen Carter, Moro Ojomo, Nolan Smith and Jordan Davis in particular were fantastic, playing the kind of physical, dominating, playmaking defense we haven’t seen enough of this year. But they couldn’t keep it up in the second half, when the Giants scored on three straight possessions, turning an 8-6 deficit into a 19-8 lead, with their only touchdown coming on a pass by backup QB Jameis Winston after J.J. McCarthy got banged up. The frustrating thing is that this defense is capable of so much more. We’ve seen it. We saw in the first half Sunday. They just can’t deliver a full game of brilliance, and considering where the offense is the Eagles need a full game of brilliance or they’re not going to have a chance. 4. I don’t even know what to say anymore about the Eagles’ offensive line. They knew the Giants were going to blitz constantly and the Giants did and the Eagles just weren’t prepared for it. They couldn’t handle it. Everybody knows the Giants blitz more than anybody in the league other than the Vikings and still they weren’t ready for it. Seven sacks? They weren’t all on blitzes, but the Giants’ defensive line – which had just nine sacks all year coming into this game – nearly matched that in one game. This o-line can’t block anybody. It’s just embarrassing. The Eagles have now allowed 12 sacks in their last two games, the most ever in a two-game span under Nick Sirianni and second most in the last 25 years. They’ve allowed 30 sacks in nine games, which is insane. And they can't run the ball, either. I don’t know if there are any answers. There’s nobody to bench, no young guy who needs to play and Jeff Stoutland isn’t walking through that door. This may be the worst offensive line in the NFL and I don’t know if there’s any way for it to get better. 5. There aren’t a lot of cards for Nick Sirianni to play anymore, but replacing Sean Mannion is out there. I’m under no illusions that replacing Mannion would solve all the Eagles’ problems and I don’t blame everything on him. But good grief you’ve got to do something and I don’t know what else there is to do. This offense is just so lackluster, so lifeless, so hopeless. That’s 10 points last week against Washington, 11 today against the Giants? First time since 2019 they’ve scored 11 or fewer points in back-to-back games. They managed 220 yards Sunday – their seventh game under 270 yards this year – the running backs averaged 1.8 yards per carry and they allowed seven sacks. This is just atrocious offense and while it’s not all on Mannion a new approach couldn’t hurt. I don’t know, Josh Grizzard maybe? Parks Frazier? Anybody? You have the worst offense in football. Don’t you have to try something? 6. It was only two plays on a day when there were a ton of bad plays, but these two really bothered me. It was late in the fourth quarter and the Eagles were on the verge of cutting the Giants' lead to one possession. On a 3rd-and-8 at the Giants' 34 with 2:25 left, running back Elijah Mitchell caught a pass from Milton. After he caught the ball, untouched, he just laid there on the field until Jevon Holland and Dru Phillips tackled him down instead of rolling for a few more yards. That left the Eagles with 4th-and-1 and led them to kick the ball after the two-minute warning instead of pushing for a touchdown. Then, on a 2nd-and-10 from the Eagles’ 36 with 31 seconds left, Mitchell caught another pass from Milton. The No. 1 priority had to be making sure you get out of bounds to stop the clock, but he kept running up the field and forced the Eagles to spike the ball. This is a six-year veteran who’s played a lot of football